by irdadmin | Nov 10, 2020 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
The advance estimate of Q3 GDP was released on Thursday, October 29th. The headline number was 33.1% (annualized rate) vs 31% expected and negative 31.4% for Q2. This was John Williams’ (Shadowstats.com) comment on the headline number: “ShadowStats...
by irdadmin | Nov 6, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
Many junior micro-cap exploration stocks have experienced sharp declines. Low relative liquidity in these names contributes meaningfully to the decline in share-price because for many of these these stocks, most of the trading occurs by the retail shareholder base,...
by irdadmin | Nov 2, 2020 | Financial Markets, Housing Market, Market Manipulation, U.S. Economy
For me it doesn’t not matter who wins the election. The person in the Oval Office is not in control of the monetary policies that form the fundamental basis for owning physical gold and silver. Regardless of which party sits in the Oval Office and Congress, the...
by irdadmin | Oct 30, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Precious Metals
The eastern hemisphere Eurasian geopolitical economic bloc of countries led by China and Russia have been systematically reducing their usage in the U.S. dollar to settle bilateral trade activity: “In the first quarter of 2020, trade between Russia and China in...
by irdadmin | Oct 29, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Market Manipulation, Precious Metals
Gold and silver futures have been used for decades to control the price of gold and silver. In fact, declassified letters )which can be found in the GATA archive) that bounced between Henry Kissinger and his advisors in the early 1970’s discuss the need for a...
by irdadmin | Oct 28, 2020 | Financial Markets, Gold, Precious Metals
The following commentary is from Chris Powell, the Treasurer of GATA. I fully endorse his view. In fact, when the report initially surfaced that the World Gold Council reported Central Banks to be net sellers of gold in September, I summarily dismissed it for the...
